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Since this tends not to be noted as anything peculiar by younger characters, it's also an instance of [[Cartoonish Companions]].
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== Anime & Manga ==
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** Cherry from ''[[Urusei Yatsura]]''.
** Yukari Godai from ''[[Maison Ikkoku]]''.
** Cologne and Happôsai from ''[[Ranma
*** The anime lampshades this in a different way; one episode has them travel to the past when Happôsai and Cologne were teens themselves. Happôsai tries to claim to have been a tall, blond [[Bishonen]], but nobody believes him and, to nobody's surprise, the 18-year-old Happôsai turns out to be an ugly little dwarf. Cologne then claims that a beautiful, dark blue-haired girl sweeping in the village is ''her'' past self. Ranma outright tells her to make her lies more believable, and Cologne promptly proves that, yes, that really ''is'' her younger self. In the English dub, this nets a dumbfounded "Oh my god!" from all of the others present, even Shampoo herself.
**** In [[Hot Amazon|Shampoo]]'s case it's probably more like, "OH MY GOD I'M GOING TO END UP LOOKING LIKE A RAISIN!"
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* Shiho's grandfather Jin from ''[[Mai-HiME]]'' is almost as short as she is.
* Ueda's mother in ''[[Japan Inc]]''.
* Enya Geil from ''[[Jo
* [[Wicked Witch|Majorina]] in ''[[Smile Pretty Cure (Anime)|Smile Pretty Cure]]'' is an evil old lady who is less than half the size of her younger fellow villains.
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== Comics ==
* Inverted in Swedish children's comic ''[[Bamse]]''. Title character Bamse is a family man (OK, anthropomorphic bear) with four children. Three of them are half his height, very reasonable since they are supposed to be around eight years old, and the fourth is a toddler. Bamse's parents are one head taller than him, and his grandmother is again one head taller, meaning that Bamse just about reaches granny's waist, and Bamse's toddler daughter is shorter than granny's foot is long!
* Geriatrix in ''[[Asterix]]'' is even shorter than Asterix himself, and about half the height of his [[Ugly Guy, Hot Wife|hot wife]].
* Ma Dalton in ''[[Lucky Luke]]''.
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== Myths & Religion ==
* This is [[Older Than Feudalism]], thanks to the Greek myth of Eos, goddess of the dawn, and her [[Mayfly
* Similar fate befalls the Cumaean Sibyl in Ovid's ''Metamorphoses''. She is granted near-immortality by Apollo, but forgets to ask for eternal youth. In the end, her shriveled body fits inside a jar.
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** Their respective sprites, however, are just as large as the sprites for the other characters. For Relm this is accomplished through a [[Nice Hat]], but Strago makes up for lack of height with an abundance of Mohawk.
* Most of the older characters in the first ''[[Jak and Daxter]]'' game (such as the bird lady and Jak's uncle) are tiny and reach only to Jak's waist. Samos the Sage is significantly shorter than his daughter Keira, though apparently his younger self was short as well.
* Inverted in ''[[Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles]]'': ''[[Crystal Bearers]]'', for the Lilties. Typically small in their prime, the average never going taller than four feet (excepting the princess and those train conductors), Lilties grow ''much'' larger as they age; Cid is nearly as tall as Layle and quite wide to boot, and Jegran could easily pass for a basketball player. The ''elderly'' Lilties are large enough to [[Foe
* Chin Gentsai in ''[[The King of Fighters]]'' is a diminutive man (he's just about as tall as Choi Bounge -- himself a midget) well into his eighties, who drinks a lot, and still he [[Badass Grandpa|can kick your ass]] and ''spit fire''.
** [[Truth in Television]]: Chin's design was a homage to Chinese actor Yuen Siu Tien. Yuen's most famous role was that of Beggar So in [[Drunken Master]] and [[Snake in The Eagles Shadow]], and he's quite shorter than [[Jackie Chan]]. He was 66 years old when the movies were shot.
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* Quetzal from ''[[Dragon Tales]]''. Despite being one of the oldest dragons in Dragon Land, he is only the same height as a human like most of the younger dragons. The adult dragons are all giants.
* [[The Dreaded|Mumm-Ra]] from ''[[Thunder Cats]]'' and ''[[Thundercats 2011 (Western Animation)|ThunderCats (2011)]]'' is this when in [[Shapeshifter Default Form]].
* Subverted in ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]''. Granny Smith is shorter than Applejack, but in a series of flashbacks indicate that she was always small.
* While not as extreme as some of the other example on this page,Lo and Li from ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender (Animation)|Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'' are still fairly short. A portrait of them painted in their youth, shown in the [[Beach Episode]], shows that they were not always that small. Nor that ugly.
* ''[[American Dragon Jake Long]]'': Jake's grandfather is so small several people during the [[Halloween Episode]] mistook him for a kid dressed like an old Chinese wise man. Then again, it was shown in flashback he wasn't much taller than that during his prime. Jake's Mom should be glad the dragon powers weren't all that skipped her.
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